August 6 2008

A lot of work and nothing done.

Lately my life has been mainly spent working at my part-time job, the local movie theater. When most people work at a movie theater, there job is relatively relaxed. Most theaters pull in a hundred people for a movie. Not our theater. We have five theaters that seat roughly 400 people, and when its busy, those theaters sell out. In addition we have 11 theaters ranging in seating size from 80 to 300. So at any given time we might have 1000 people watching a movie. Part of me loves the fast-paced environment and knowing that I work in one of the largest, most accomplished and distinguished theaters in the country. Another part of me wishes I could find a “real job”, as my dad so decidedly put it. Because I work at least 40 hours a week at bizarre and inconvienent hours, I haven’t been able to work on what I want to: The music site.

I think I’ll start mapping out databases and a final layout draft tonight while I still have some energy. I’m also looking to add some resourceful tutorials or articles for people that might need help or would like to read real content. I know many people have visited my site, mostly friends, but to be honest, I wouldn’t visit my site regularly either. There’s really nothing here.

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August 1 2008

Plans and more planning.

So, basically, some fool decided to use my wordpress to spam yahoo email. Awesome. I had to scratch my entire installation. But as a result, I ended up recoding my layout, and as simple as this one is, I like it a lot more. I also completed it entirely from scratch instead of using templates as a base. Oddly enough, it was easier to code from scratch than to alter something that already exists. Who would of thought?

In other news, I’m finally an adult. I now have the ability to purchase scratch tickets, vote, use a credit card, smoke a cigarette and die for my country. But I still can’t purchase alcohol. I also have the privilege or working past midnight, which my current place of employment throughly enjoys. I wasn’t able to not work on my birthday to their disappointment, but the following day I stayed until 1:30 AM, cleaning, scrubbing, and yawning. It was fantastic.

In other news, only 20 days until I break out onto the scene in Brooklyn, NY. I’ve been forced to start making lists of items I will need to pack and shop for. I also need to start saving money.

Lastly, I’m still making attempts at securing a successful future prematurely. I really don’t want to wait until after college to make it “big”. So why not try now, when my ambitions are extremely high? I’m working on coding a site, that will be a large combination of Facebook, Pure Volume, and You Tube, all centered around music. No name yet, just partly developed artwork. I’m working on learning the code as well, like mySQL, and jQuery, and I might have to pick up some stuff on Apache. I’m really not sure. It’s quite beyond what I’ve done, and I’m out of practice as it is. Should be a good challenge.

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